what is the meaning & purpose of 16X DVD-ROM Drive and 17" Monitor?

Answer 1

17 inch monitor means that 17 inches is the diagonal length of your monitors screen.
16x dvd-rom means the reading speed of your dvd-rom (digital versatile disk- read only memory) is 16x.
The purpose is to view to be able to view DVDs and CDs and they can be viewed on a Monitor.

Answer 2

I can perhaps understand about the 16x Dvd-ROM question, but were you serious with the 17" monitor portion?? Have you been living in the proverbial cave? What are you looking at right now?

Answer 3

16x DVD-ROM: the drive can read the information 16 times faster than the first generation. Doesn't do anything helpful for movies, but pulling up to 7.4 Gigs of data off in 5 minutes rather than an hour is helpful.

17" monitor: its 17 inches from corner to corner (diagonal) on LCDs its visible, usuable space, on old CRT (tubes) they have a second measurement called (visible) Bigger is better.

Is that what you're asking?

Answer 4

A 16x DVD-ROM drive can read DVD up to16 times faster than a normal (movie) DVD is read (in theory).
A 17" monitor is a computer screen which has a diagonal of 17" (inches)

Answer 5

Hi. The 16x means the burner can spin 16x faster than normal when burning a disk. The monitor is what you watch to use the computer.

Answer 6

DVD-ROM 16X drive reads DVD content at up to 16X* speed and enables you to access your CD-ROM data at an incredible speed of 48X*, making it an ideal replacement for your slower DVD-ROM or CD-ROM drive. Creative DVD DVD-ROM 16X also supports popular disk types such as DVD-R, CD-R, CD-RW and CD-Audio, so there is no worry running your existing application and accessing your precious data or audio library.

Ideal for Video editors like me...burns DVD so fast , with my 2 Super Drives i can make copies as fast ....

Answer 7

if this question made even a hint of sence i might be able to answer it.